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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 11/10] pipe: Add fsync() support [ver #2]
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:

> I am _really_ worried about overloading fsync for this behavior.  fsync
> hasn't done anything for 50 years, and suddenly adding any action
> is not helpful.  If you can't use FIONREAD please add a new ioctls
> instead, and document it properly.

Okay.

David